Washing-machine.



PATENTED 17,1903.

A. N. VERDIN.

WASHINGMAGHINE. APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 9, 1900.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALOIS N. VERDIN, OF GLENDALE, OHIO, AssIeNoR or TWO-THIRDS TO WALTER E. BYASSETT AND'WILLIAM o. PEALE, on CINCINNATI,

OHIO.

WASHING-:MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 721,110, dated February -17, 1903. Application filed August 9, 1900 Serial No. 26,416. (No model.)

To all wlwm/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALOIS N. VERDIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at'Glendale, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Washing-Machine, of which the following is a speciof the washing liquid under,over,and through this textile fabric.

The invention consists generally in the construction and arrangement of parts whereby, first, a rolling motion is secured and the hurtful rubbing arising from the drawing of the Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal section of the machine when open. Fig. 4 represents a supplementary bottom for the tub. Fig. 5 represents either one of the rockers employed in the machine.

In the views similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The body of the machine is preferably a rectangular box forming a tub A, supported The tub is provided with a closely-fitting lid or cover B, preferably hinged, as shown, at one end to the tub A. Within the tub A there is preferably present a supplementary bottom D, having on its-under side at intervals projections D substantially as shown. This bottom proper, D, is provided with many perforations D permitting the washing fluid to pass through them from the space under them to the clothes laid upon this bottom-to be washed and also to pass from the clothes back through themto the space beneath for the purpose of facilitating the process of cleansing the clothes.

For directly operating upon the clothes I employ two rockers C C, whose outwardlycurved bottom 7 faces 0 are arranged, as shown, to bear uponthe goods. The bottom is duly provided with many perforations C necting-rod g. Both of theserods are duly connected pivotally at their ends respec' tively to the adjacent upright arm 2'.

I provide means foreausing the rockers to resiliently pressdown upon the clothes, to wit: Upon the cover I erect a stand 0, which carries a pin d capable of rotation inan alternating manner and carrying a sleeve 01. In the latter is present the upper part of a 2o dasher or rolls upon the cloth is reduced to a The rockers are preferably made as follows: minimum; secondly, the loading, unloading, To the edges of the ends and sides of the and cleansing of the machine is made easy curved bottom plateare fixed pieces Cflwhich and convenient; thirdly, the pressure upon do not extend below the bottom plate, but the textile fabric is maintained in planes extend upwardly, and together form a recep- 25 nearly vertical-namely, at substantially tacle in which the washing liquid may come right angles to the horizontal plane of the asitis squeezed from the clothes as the rocker bottom of the tub-and is automatically incompresses them and from which the liquid creased or diminished, according as the quanmay pass to the clothes as the rocker (in that tity of clothes in the machine is increased or part) leaves the clothes. I

go diminished. The primary purpose of the side and end The several features of my invention and pieces 0 is to strengthen and hold in place the various advantages resulting from their the rocker-bottom and also afio'rd a hold use conjointly or otherwise will be apparent through the agencyof the central brace C from the following description and claim. fixed to opposite pieces 0 of the rocker,

35 I attain these objects by mechanism illusfor the arm i, which latter is duly secured, trated in the accompanying drawings, in' substantially as shown, to the said brace 0 which When the rockers are in their central posi- Figurel representsavertical section of the tion, the arms vi 'i thereof will be vertical. machine when closed. Fig. 2 representsa lon- They (the arms) are duly interconnected by 40 gitudinal section of the machine when closed.- a lower connecting-rod f and an upper cono 50 on legs a a, one at each corner of the tub. rode, free to move through said sleeve. The I00 purpose of this rod is to be a guide for holding a spring which shall communicate a continued pressure to the rockers and cause them to exert a resilient pressure upon the clothes which are placed beneath them. To this end the lower end of this rod is duly connected to a connecting-rodas, for instance, rod fto give greater length to spring h, whose preferred form is spiral. This spring h encircles the rod e between the sleeve d and that end of pivotal connection or hinge e of the rod (2. This spring is preferably always under compression, so that the rockers will always press down upon the supplemental bottom or upon the clothes thereon.

Means for oscillating the rockers C are to be employed, and I have invented therefor the following, viz: To the connecting-rod g I pivotally connect one end of a pitman K, which for obvious reasons I have curved, as shown. The other end of the pitman K is pivotally connected to a crank m, fixed on a crank-shaft n. To the latter is fixed a handlearm Z, provided with handle 1 This crankshaft 12 is journaled in bearings of arms 0. These arms 0 0 are fixed to the lid B of the tub, substantially as shown.'

In opening the machine to put clothes in the tub or to remove therefrom those already washed the entire operating mechanism being supported and carried by the lid or cover B assumes the position shown in Fig. 3, leaving the inside of the tubAempty of mechanism, excepting the supplemental bottom D, which remains therein.

The mode in which my machine is operated is as follows: The lid is thrown back, as heretofore specified, and the clothes to be washed are placed within the tub on the bottom D. Washing liquid has been previously placed in the tub or is now placed therein. The lid is now returned to cover the tub and is duly secured in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The rockers press yieldingly upon the clothes. The handle 1 is now moved back and forth and in turn moves the upper ends of the arms t' 1 back and forth, and thus the rockers are rocked first one way and then the other. These rockers thus roll over and on the clothes, and the pressure upon the clothes is changed so as first to squeeze them and then to release pressure upon them. The washing liquid is thereby caused to pass back and forth through the goods, thereby removing the dirt.

The object of providing the rockers and supplemental bottom with perforations instead of making the supplemental bottom and the bottom of slots or with slot-holes is to prevent the goods while being washed from weaving into the rockers or supplemental bottom.

By this mechanism thus constructed and arranged I am enabled to accomplish the objects and attain the advantages mentioned in the opening portion of this specification.

What I claim as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a washing-machine, the combination of a suds-box provided with a cover, a bracket 0 mounted on said cover and provided with a bearing, an oscillating pin d mounted in said bearing and provided with a socket, of the rockers provided with uprights i, the connecting-rods f g, the ends of which are pivoted to said uprights, the rod e pivotally attached to one of said connecting-rods and sliding in said socket, the spring 71, interposed between said last-named connecting-rod and said pin, and means for actuating the rockers, substantially as described.

ALOIS N. VERDIN.

Witnesses:

WALTER E. BASSETT, CHAS. E. EVERETT. 

